2013年8月15日木曜日

Two days ago, Tokyo was succumbed to heavy rain and thunderstorms.
All trains of the Odakyu line were stopped for 2 hours due to lighting striking one of the trains between Izumi-Tamagawa and Noborito station.
And amazingly a youtube user uploaded a video of the lightning hitting an Odakyu line train (incident at 1:20):

2013年8月14日水曜日

The new soft drink from Asahi is a grape/cola beverage with a touch of spice called "Spiral Grape".

It's slogan is "LIFE needs SPICE" as it states on the bottle... and I have no idea how a grape drink would ever be the spice I need in life. And as a matter of fact, I don't want a bottle giving me a life lesson unless a genie came out of it granting me three wishes...

I only decided to buy one after watching the crazy commercial on TV which featured a cartoon Gothic bear screaming to be proactive (no joke). I also found out when researching that the voice of the bear was actually voiced by actor Yo Oizumi (who also voices Professor Layton in the Japanese version).

2013年8月10日土曜日

The Toriko inspired Gyudon (Japanese marinated beef on rice) is now on sale at Sukiya stores nationwide! This is coinciding with the release new Toriko film Toriko the Movie: Bishokushin's Special Menu.

2013年8月7日水曜日

The music video AKB48's new single "Koi Suru Fortune Cookie" (The Fall-in-Love Fortune Cookie) featuring the only the staff of Japan's biggest idol group was uploaded to their official youtube channel. Originally meant as a in-joke to begin with, in the space of 2 weeks, the video has had more than 2.4 million views and growing by the day.

2013年8月3日土曜日

On August 2nd, Nihon TV aired a rerun of the Ghibli classic film "Laputa: Castle in the Sky". At approximately 11:55pm, when the two lead characters Sheeta and Pazu use the Magic Devastation Spell "Balse", Japanese internet users cast their own "Balse" spells on Twitter, the video hosting site niconico douga, and the forum board 2channel.

2013年8月2日金曜日

On July 11th, German Tabloid Newspaper Bild reported that "a Japanese Comedian Sugichan won 500 million yen in the Lottery and took the money home" accompanied by a photo of the Sugichan grimacing with a pile of cash.

My Porfile / 自己紹介

おはよー！(Ohayo-!)
Both my parents are Japanese but for some reason I was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia.
When I was 20, I decided to move to Tokyo and I have never looked back.
I work in the entertainment industry (it's not as glamorous as you think).
Don't ask me about the whales.
よろしこ！ (Yoroshiko)